Associate Professor
Email: choe@tamu.edu
Phone: 979-845-5466
Office: HRBB 322B
http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/choe
Ph.D. Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2001
M.A. Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1995
B.S. Computer Science, Yonsei University, 1993
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computational neuroscience, brain networks, visual perception, autonomous semantics
AWARDS
- Big 12 Faculty Fellowship, 2006
- Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Computer
Science, Texas A&M University, 2004
EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2007 - present
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2001-2007
- Intern, Exploratory Research and Development Group, Advanced Technology Division, HNC Inc. San Diego, 1999
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
Editorial board:
- Neural Information Processing — Letters and Reviews (2002—)
Program committees:
- Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM 2003, 2005).
- IASTED
Conference on Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence (NCI 2004).
- International Conference
on Machine Learning (ICML 2004). IEEE Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS 2004,
2006).
- IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2005).
- Post-IJCNN
Workshop on Bio-Inspired Models and Hardware (BIMH 2005).
- Post-IJCNN
Workshop on Neurodynamics and Intentional Dynamic Systems (IDS 2005, panelist).
- International Symposium on Artificial
Brain with Emotion and Learning (ISABEL 2006).
- National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI 2007).
- International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008).
Reviewing:
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006).
- Neural
Computing Surveys (2001).
- Neurocomputing (2002, 2004, 2005).
- Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society (Cogsci; 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006).
- Neural Networks (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006).
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2002, 2004).
- Biological Cybernetics (2004).
- IEEE Transactions
on Image Processing (2005).
- Journal of Computational Neuroscience (2006).
- International Journal
of Control, Automation, and Systems (2005).
- Neural Information Processing–Letters and Reviews
(2006).
- Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems (2006).
- International Journal of Humanoid
Robotics (2006).
- INNS-ENNS-INNS Tri-society Newsletter (2006).
- Journal of Visual Communications
and Image Representation (2007).
- Connection Science (2007).
Professional membership:
- IEEE: 2006—
- American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 2000—
- International Neural Networks Society (INNS): 2001—
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 2001—
- Cognitive Science Society: 2002, 2004
- Society for Neuroscience: 2004—
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Yoonsuck Choe, Huei-Fang Yang, and Daniel Chern-Yeow Eng, "Autonomous Learning of the Semantics of Internal Sensory States Based on Motor Exploration," International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 4:211-243, 2007.
Heejin Lim and Yoonsuck Choe, "Facilitating Neural Dynamics for Delay Compensation and Prediction in Evolutionary Neural Networks," in Maarten Keijzer, editor, Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, GECCO-2006, pages 167-174, 2006. Nominated for Best Paper Award in the Artificial Life/Evolutionary Robotics/Adaptive Behavior track.
Yingwei Yu and Yoonsuck Choe, "A Neural Model of the Scintillating Grid Illusion: Disinhibition and Self-Inhibition in Early Vision, Neural Computation, 18:521-544, 2006.
Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh, "Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex," Springer, Berlin, 2005. URL:
http://www.computationalmaps.org.
Yoonsuck Choe, "The Role of Temporal Parameters in a Thalamocortical Model of Analogy," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 15:1071-1082, 2004.
